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When School Funding Cuts Reach the Art Room
… and when statewide politicians, not educators, make the call I grew up in Ohio and still have many friends and relatives living there. One of my friends sent this plea for help from her daughter. Here is what she wrote to her own family and friends. “Family and friends, I am fortunate to have […]
From Teaching Dreams to Gifted Outlier: How My Life Shaped What I Write Now
I declared in second grade that I wanted to be a teacher and then a principal. That was in 1956-57. This is the picture of my 2nd grade class. Mrs. Tiberio was my teacher and I loved her! I’m farthest left in the first row. Everyone thought that was fine. When I took the National […]
Gifted, Bored, and Misunderstood: Why School Can Fail Bright Children
The people giving the descriptions are the mother or father of a gifted child who volunteered to work with me as I wrote about their experiences. These are all pseudonyms from my longitudinal study work. And no, things never seem to change in schools for very long and with great exceptions. Different Reasons and Possibilities […]
Giftedness Across a Lifetime – How schools, access, and opportunity shape gifted people of every age
It matters that people be aware of typical education policy. And yet, we all go to school for at least a little while, and we hope and trust that the schools know what they’re doing. When I write about gifted children and schools, I am writing about adult readers, as well. These realities and experiences […]
Introduction to a Longitudinal Study about Gifted Children and Adults
Yes, that’s what I do. I’m an investigative author who looks into why people turn out the ways that they do. In the summer of 2023 I released a book about the gifted children and their families with whom I’d worked in the early 2000s. Those kids are now grown up.[i] The book is The […]
